Roasteria

[Marc Velasco]

Italian as in pizzeria ?  Likely, I was thinking mainly of the
coffee-growing countries they might purchase from.  This actually seems more
like a branding thing... cafes sell coffee... we sell _roast_.



On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 2:06 AM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>
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> That's a possibility I hadn't thought of. Given the power of Italian
> in the espresso domain, though, my money remains on Italiano :) BB
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> On Jul 13, 2008, at 10:58 PM, Marc Velasco wrote:
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> > Could be from the Spanish too (which probably has similar construction
> > rules).
> >
> > shoe : shoestore
> >
> > zapato : zapateria
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> > maybe they sell 'roast' ?
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> > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com
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> >> Not found in the ADS4 or the CAE.
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> >> "We bring people together for conversation and coffee and food," said
> >> McConnell, whose cafe empire includes a roasteria on Capitol Hill,
> >> four coffee shops in Seattle and one in Olympia.
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> >> by Melissa Allison and Amy Martinez
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> >> McConnell is part owner of Caff=E9 Vita Coffee Roasting. Later in the
> >> article is a bit about Espresso Vivace Roasteria, which is probably
> >> where they got the word from. Ava Roastaria uses the word as well,
> >> probably from roaster + -ia as Italian does not seem to use this
> >> word.
> >> BB
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